No, it's not ultra-sensitive lefties or ultra-sensitive Jews who find this obscene, and it's certainly not an intersection of that Venn diagram.

Or, as the letter states:

In the charged political climate in the current civic debate, much is tolerated, and much is ignored or dismissed. But you diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with. That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks, and it is not only 'left-wing rabbis' who think so.

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No, it's not a leftie thing. It's people that don't live in an echo chamber. This is what happens when bile like Beck's leaks out of it and into mainstream news.

Beck and Ailes did not invent the holocaust-appropriation tactic, but they've taken it to new lows.

But you know, I'm Jewish, and we're touchy about stuff like blaming the Jews for the actions of the Nazis and that sort of thing.

Gotta love it Rabbi's defending a guy Soros who help round up the Hungarian Jews and sent them to Auschwitz.

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Gotta love it indeed.

"Fox slanders Soros, therefore slander is true."

Your silly tin Beck-god notwithstanding, Soros was a 14-year-old boy at the time. Every account says his "crime" was that he went with the Christian who was sheltering him, where said "adoptive father" or whatever you call him, tallied confiscated property.

What does Soros have to do with this, aside from Beck's (and your?) attempts at deflection?

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Well, for one thing, since 13 obviously did not read either of the cited articles before spouting more lies, the rabbis composed the letter partially in response to Beck's deliberate manipulation of the facts and outright horrendous lies about Soros.

But the rabbis said that the letter was sparked by Beck's three-part program in November about billionaire philanthropist Soros, who is Jewish and grew up in Nazi-occupied Hungary and is a favorite target of conservative pundits.

"And George Soros used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off," Beck said on one of the programs. "And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. Here's a Jewish boy helping send Jews to the death camps."

(Soros has said that he hid with a Christian family to escape the Nazis, and that he was present when his so-called godfather inventoried property confiscated from Jews who had been deported.)

13 is apparently of the belief that Beck speaks the truth and has no problem propagating his boldfaced lies, lies and more lies.

Poor 13, I could regard him as simply pathetic if he weren't so willfully ignorant.

What question do you want answered? The Rabbi's org is being funded by Soros, pretty simple he says jump they say how high.

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So Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative Judaism in the United States are all pawns of George Soros, just to make your goddam tin god shinier?

The heads of the rabbinical organizations of all three of these branches signed this letter.

Many influetial Orthodox rabbis did as well.

This is not right/left. This is drawing the line. As in, cut the crap, Fox/Beck.

You can't "look at this one picture from 2006" your way out of it. Everybody knows that people throw around and cheapen terms like "holocaust" and "Nazi". But Beck specifically and Fox as an entertainment network have made hyperbolic references to the Holocaust stock in trade, as have the sign-waving legions of marching morons in the tea parties.

Many of these individual rabbis - left and right - have spoken up in the past. The magnitude of the united front represented here should give you an idea of how seriously this community has started to take this hyperbolic crap.

Get your head out of your echo chamber and look at reality for a change. People are getting p.o.d

Open Society Foundation gave some money to a specific project called Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing which is managed by The Jewish Funds for Justice.

In other words, OSI funds a managed project of JFSJ, which means JFSJ doesnât even get to spend the money given by OSI to Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing - it merely passes it on. It's a conduit not a beneficiary.

Other than monies for that one specific group, Jewish Funds for Justice does not receive any other funding from Soros or his philanthropies.

A number of American Jewish leaders condemned Mr. Beck, who happens to be a great supporter of Israel and the Jewish people, for these remarks, yet a 1998 interview with Soros conducted by Steve Kroft on â60 Minutesâ shows that Beck was essentially correct:

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Thatâs right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, thatâsâthat sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Notânot at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you donâtâyou donât see the connection. But it wasâit created noâno problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, âIâm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.â None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I câI could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldnât be there, because that wasâwell, actually, in a funny way, itâs just like in marketsâthat if I werenât thereâof course, I wasnât doing it, but somebody else wouldâwouldâwould be taking it away anyhowâ (âInterview with Steve Kroft,â â60 Minutes,â December 20, 1998).